Zukiswa  Wanner is the 2015 winner of South African Literary Award’s  K.Sello Duiker Award for her fourth novel, London Cape Town Joburg. Her third novel Men of the Southwas shortlisted for  Commonwealth Best Book and the Herman Charles Bosman Awards.  She has judged the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Fiction and was the Africa Judge for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2017.

Wanner was a founding board member of the literary initiative Writivism  in Uganda and is on the Advisory Board of the Ake Literary Festival in Nigeria. She has facilitated writing workshops in Ghana , Tanzania, Kenya ,Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Germany.

Wanner has been a columnist for the pan-African publication New African, and Saturday Nation in Kenya and has been a guest-host for the monthly BBC Africa Book Club with Audrey Brown.

She  was the co-editor of the African-Asian anthology Beneath the Shadows with Indian writer, Rohini Chowdhury and has now co-founded an African-Latin American literary platform lashamba.wordpress.com with Mexican writer, Felipe Lomelli.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Madams (Oshun, 2006)

Behind Every Successful Man (Kwela, 2008)

Men of the South (Kwela, 2010)

8115: A Prisoner’s Home (Penguin, 2010)

Jama Loves Bananas (Jacana 2011)

Maid in SA: 30 Ways to Leave Your Madam(Jacana, 2013)

Refilwe (Jacana, 2014)

London Cape Town Joburg (Kwela, 2014)